Somewhere, rumour has it, there is Von Trier as well, although the Danish film-maker has taken a vow of silence since a miscued (and arguably misconceived) joke at the Cannes film festival led to him being cast out like Satan.
He argued, first, that the Stoic definition of the cognitive impression ruled out the possibility of anything being known — i.e. he restated the standard Academic arguments to this effect — and, secondly, that this definition was therefore misconceived, since at least some things could be known.
This has led to a chorus of derision, from the Economist calling them "sprawling and misconceived", to leaders at the Gates Foundation ridiculing the process as "no targets left behind".
"The whole case against Xiaoxing Xi was just completely misconceived," asserts David Larbalestier, a physicist at Florida State University, Tallahassee, who submitted an affidavit for the defense.
The end product of such a discussion might well resemble Peter Sellars's exasperatingly misconceived "Othello," which opened on Sunday night at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, with a cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago and John Ortiz as Othello.
I am sitting there, rereading Michiko Kakutani's review ("misconceived and offensive"), wincing, laughing, biting my nails, marvelling at the power of the critic and also at the baseness of the critical pursuit, when I hear a voice, elegant, subtle, drifting from my Sony boombox (vintage 1994).
Portraying a man in thrall to this harsh revelation in the grievously misconceived revival of Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," which opened last night at the American Airlines Theater, Peter Krause certainly appears to be feeling no pain.
In this case, Mr. Dale's lawyers at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund are arguing that the Boy Scouts First Amendmentt argument is misconceived because "there is no core expressive purpose of anti-gay ideology in scouting" and consequently no expressive burden in allowing gay men to serve.
In a strongly worded, previously undisclosed correspondence, a lawyer for Steven L. Rattner, the financier ensnared in a wide-ranging investigation of suspected kickbacks, described a proposed payment of at least $20 million to the New York attorney general office as excessive, "misconceived" and "wholly untethered from the facts" in the case.
Many government projects are either misconceived, or unfinished, or both like the gleaming new fish-processing plant along the coast at Boca de Uchire that has stood empty for a year because a planned wharf remains on the drawing board, while just three carpenters work on the beach building the fishing fleet designed to supply it.
